First of all get ready for wild ride on the wild side.If you don't have any white hair yet expect to start seeing right after you install this card card.

- First thing you need to do is find out if this card can be installed on the HP Unix server in question.
- It is strongly recommended that your HP Unix be at 11.31 in order to take full advantage of it speed. If you don't have HP Unix 11.31 then 11.23 will do but with some pain.
- Once past these hurdles you can not just install this card in any given slot , you need to find out which I/O slot in your server is the 266 Mhz slot. Place in any other slot will cause the card not to perform as expected.
- Make sure you download and install the latest driver for this I/O card. Make sure the driver is available for 11.31 and 11.23. Forget about HP Unix 11.11.

- After it has been installed you need to make sure that your fiber card can connect to the SAN at the 10GB limit. Your I/O card will only connect to the speed that your SAN switches can support. Be very careful with that, Your Ferrari can not go at 220 km/h in a 30 Km/h zone.

Hope that this a good starting point for you.

PS: Try to get HP to come in and install this card. If you do it yourself you risk frying it if you are inexperienced with these sort of things.

Thanks nmaxima;
There are two of us working on this and we have also been informed that the driver has to be compiled in the kernel with that being installed for the card to function. We are going forward with this slowly but are trying not to bring in consultants. Your advice is greatly appreciated.

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